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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Anna, I'm deeply humbled by this very comprehensive post! Thank you SO MUCH!!

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

And, while it’s not in a story, this 1978 cover features a Pong variant: www.comics.org/issue/105850...

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

D’oh! Sorry, Ashley; I’ve not been on BlueSky for months. I searched comics.org for “video game” and found Dave Berg’s “Games People Slay” from 1979… www.comics.org/issue/875318...

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I saw The Beat’s protest comics coverage used this as their cover photo!

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I can’t believe they’ve estimated turnout at 50K. That’s just insulting.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I’m a librarian and I will fight AI tooth and nail, letter-opener and rubber stamp, to my dying breath. It sickens me. Librarians should be working toward improving writing and research, not destroying it.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What’s up, doc? Seen hanging out on 231st St, half a block from the Henry Hudson Parkway.

A brown rabbit hangs out on the grassy verge as I head down the sidewalk.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Oh, Matthew, I’m so so sorry. What can we do to help??

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

@nsousanis.bsky.social and I made it into the timeline of 50 years of Columbia alumni magazine. If you want to see the other 49 years, click here magazine.columbia.edu/article/50-y...

Screengrab of section of 50 Years of Columbia Magazine, with the 2017 entry about my job, drawn by Nick Sosanis, which won the Eisner for Best Short Story in 2018.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We have serious problems to solve & we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things & two things only: making you afraid of it & telling you who's to blame for it.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I’m reminded of this line from the climactic speech in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (for “Bob Rumson,” substitute “Republicans”). (1/2)

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

With thanks to J.J Sedelmaier and Howard Beckerman’s daughter Sheri, these beauties are now gracing our collection. Descriptions in the ALT text.

“A tragedy of temperature” comic by Louis Glackens in 1906. After a refreshing dip in the ocean, a portly gentleman retires to dress in his street clothes. By the time he finishes, he’s drenched in sweat.

An undated Sunday strip of “Abbie an’ Slats,” by Raeburn Van Buren. Judging by the fashion, I’d reckon mid- to late-1960s (the young woman looks a lot like Marlo Thomas in “That Girl). Aunt Abbie and her niece Kit are in London, where Kit believes a young man following them is a spy.

Not original art, but a beautiful “Barney Google and Sparkplug” game board, drawn by Billy DeBeck. A Milton Bradley game with a copyright of 1923.

A daily “Oaky Doaks” strip by Ralph Fuller, circa 1945. Oaky Doaks was a wannabe knight who made his armor from tin and took a plowhorse as his trusty steed.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I await more news with bated breath!

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is a major milestone. It’s even bigger than this post indicates. Art Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer. Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer for a category that branched off in 2023 from one established in 1917.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Oh now I wish I were at all musical… And yes it was a simply lovely afternoon. I wish it could have lasted longer!

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Wonderful, fabulous @cathkastner.bsky.social drew this portrait of me after my visit with her in Paris. It is accurate to every detail, from Sacre-Coeur in the background to my fuschia coat to the pockets on my suitcase to my omnipresent chocolat chaud.

Drawing by Cath Kastner, of me in Paris, with my Doc Martens, my fuschia coat, Sacre-Coeur (I was staying in Montmartre, and my trusty oversize cup of chocolat chaud. Thank you, Cath!

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

That’s what you get when you fire/dismiss all those trained women and people of color. All-white just ain’t right.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

And now, at 7:20, the Columbia Spec posts a story that NYPD has been called in to clear out the protestors, who’ve been confined to one room. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

columbiaspectator.com

Shipman authorizes NYPD sweep of pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, police in riot gear arrest dozens

<i>This is a breaking story. Check back for updates. </i>

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Another colleague called to say he would go into my office and get my stuff. I was nearby, happily, so he could drop it off with me as he headed home. At 6 pm, I got a text saying Butler Library had been cleared.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

At around 4pm, I got a call from a colleague, asking me if I was in or out of the building and, if I was out, whether I had all my things. I didnt, as it happened: my bag with wallet, cards, house keys, was still in my office.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Judging by the Spec’s reporting, it sounds like our own Public Safety officers (all too many of whom are hired outside security) did quite enough roughing up on their own. I dont see the point in calling in the highly-militarized NYPD.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

So…more fun at Columbia. I left the library at about 3:30 to go have tea with a donor. There was a crowd outside the entrance, but they were milling about. No chanting, no placards.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The message you’re commenting on seems to be deleted—what was going on?

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So…the UK Supreme Court are TERFs. Good to know.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Just got to it! And, yes, all roads lead to comics—but especially through the Middle Ages.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Last night at @92ndstreety.bsky.social : Naomi Fry talks with Robert Crumb and Dan Nadel, on the occasion of the release of Dan’s Crumb biography. Also, obviously, the most important content in the book (see alt-text for why)!

Onstage at the Y: Naomi Fry talks with Robert Crumb and Dan Nadel beneath a photo of the book cover.

In the acknowledgements: thanks given to me ☺️ ! The university was still closed to non-Columbia researchers at the time, and I spent a few hours with Dan on Zoom, projecting scores of letters between Robert, Aline, or Jesse Crumb and Denis Kitchen of Kitchen Sink Press, the most useful of which i scanned and emailed to him.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Extortion is the only policy tool that the Trump administration uses.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I imagine the author doesn’t find those references to be irrelevant. I’d love to know what the algorithm is for determining irrelevance—and who programmed it.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

She has never not been a monster. Some say it’s just a persona she assumes but, so what? THIS is the persona she chooses??

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Incidentally, I think the woman in the foreground looks like Patricia Neal, but she wouldn’t become a star for another 6 years…

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Look at this absolute BEAUTY of a cartoon: Sisters of Liberty!, by Burris Jenkins, 1943. From a time when a majority of Americans pulled together for a common goal. Hard to believe, eh?

Original art for a 1943 cartoon about women in the war effort. Women are shown as nurses, welders, Red Cross workers, in factories tightening airplane tires, working heavy machinery, oiling propellers, and in the various Women’s Auxiliary uniforms. In the center of them all, Lady Liberty holds her torch up high.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Oh man, she was born in Ukraine…when it was still part of the Soviet Union. Interesting. Early member of the Tea Party, too, just a couple of years after becoming a U.S. citizen.

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Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Right? I mean, who IS due process for, then? Also, I’m beginning to think the (R) after the names of the people spouting this fascist insanity is increasingly superfluous.

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